![]() The descriptions of the exhilaration of riding in its various forms - cow pony, dude ranch, jumper, racer - is breathtaking and, while I would stop short of calling it a psychological thriller, the main characters do engage in psychological analysis of the interloper who, in turn, is doing the same of them while he walks a tightrope trying not to put a step wrong and possibly undo his unbelievable good fortune. ![]() Much of the story has to do with horses - breeding, riding, jumping, and cantering around the beautiful countryside - and, as with setting out on a ride, the story starts off at a walk and steadily picks up the pace as the characters gain in confidence and the line between a quasi-immoral act runs into an utterly unacceptable, and greater immoral truth. ![]() The story takes place mostly in England on a breeding farm of a not-quite-aristocratic family and centres around the coming of age of a surviving twin and a masquerading interloper who steps in to steal away his inheritance. Josephine Tey’s writing in Brat Farrar is absolutely amazing. ![]()
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